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Town including outgrowths · Census 2011 · code 802551
Bhavnagar population. Households, literacy and work.
A detailed town profile in Gujarat, using the original Primary Census Abstract. Every figure on this page belongs to the source’s 2011 population and geography.
Historical geographic unit. Census 2011 town boundary and classification. The primary total includes the outgrowths (OG) explicitly included in the source name; it is not a municipal-core-only count. This is not a present-day population or an urban-agglomeration total.
The source records 126,087 households and 605,882 residents. These household and person counts are separate measures.
Children aged 0–6 accounted for 11.07% of residents. This historical age group helps describe the age structure in 2011; it does not measure today’s children.
Male literacy was 90.27% and female literacy was 79.05%, each calculated among the corresponding population aged 7 and above.
Of 203,500 Census workers, 92.35% were main workers. Census work includes more than salaried employment.
What kinds of work were recorded?
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Economic activity
Main workers
Marginal workers
Cultivators
1,191
257
Agricultural labourers
1,529
256
Household industry workers
3,007
863
Other workers
182,215
14,182
Cultivators, agricultural labourers, household industry workers and other workers are separate Census activity categories. A worker count is not a count of employees on a company payroll.
Using the profile in research
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Definitions, calculation methods and source access
Literacy uses people aged 7 and above; work participation uses all residents. Main workers worked at least six months. Households are the PCA household count, not houses. Rates with zero denominators are unavailable. Names and boundaries belong to Census 2011.
The main profile combines the selected, non-overlapping components. A municipal-core row and its wider row including outgrowths are not added together.
Town proper, excluding outgrowths
The source also supplies a narrower town-proper record. It contains 593,368 people. This component is already inside the wider total and must not be added again.
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Indicator · Census 2011
Total
Males
Females
Populationpeople
593,368
308,892
284,476
Children aged 0–6people aged 0–6
65,741
35,642
30,099
Literate populationliterate people aged 7+
446,905
246,326
200,579
Literacy rate% of the corresponding population aged 7+
84.7%
90.15%
78.85%
Scheduled Castes populationpeople
36,217
18,720
17,497
Scheduled Tribes populationpeople
3,932
1,994
1,938
Total workersCensus workers
199,421
170,584
28,837
Work participation rate% of the corresponding total population